Eleanor Bron

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Biography

There is one strange, mesmerizing film scene that easily sums up the disturbing fascination Eleanor Bron brought to her characters on stage, TV and in the cinema. This is the classic fig-eating scene which she shares with 'Alan Bates is a romantic novel. Long married to well-known architect Cedric Price, she became his widow in 2003. They had no children.

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·writer
  • Country
  • United Kingdom
  • Nationality
  • British
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 14 March 1938
  • Place of birth
  • Stanmore
  • Education
  • Newnham College· Cambridge·North London Collegiate School
  • Knows language
  • English language

Music

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

She turned down the part of Emma Peel in "The Avengers" .

She is the younger sister of record producer Gerry Bron.

Paul McCartney thought of her while writing "Eleanor Rigby", one of the most famous songs by The Beatles , and she also inspired the lyric for the Marillion song "Cover My Eyes", a UK Top 40 hit from their 1991 album "Holidays in Eden".

She was one of the first female performers of the Cambridge Footlights Reuve in 1959. It used to be all male with the female characters portrayed by men in drag.

Quotes

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. .

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